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After a successful first Chicago Code Camp last year, we're back to announce the second edition of this unique technical event. The Chicago Code Camp 2 will happen on May 1 st . In this event we are addressing one obvious and recurring feedback: Make it closer to the city . We're thrilled to...

Last Saturday I had the pleasure to present a JavaScript talk at the Iowa Code Camp . The talk was Stop Programming JavaScript By Luck and it tries to highlight some of the most puzzling differences from your mainstream programming language (read: C#, VB, Java.) I'd like to thank all that came to...

In this month's Chicago ALT.NET meeting we will be taking a look at Apache CouchDB . I quote from the official site: Apache CouchDB is a document-oriented database that can be queried and indexed in a MapReduce fashion using JavaScript. CouchDB also offers incremental replication with bi-directional...

Later this month I'll be attending the Mozilla Add-Ons Meetup in Chicago. I'm continually impressed with the extensibility of Mozilla applications and the amazing things people are doing with it. I'm interested in both the extensibility model and in writing a few custom extensions myself...

I finally got around to properly record and publish one of those JavaScript presentations that I have been doing at local users groups. The video and the slide deck are available below. The video And the slide deck. If you prefer, you can download the slide deck .

Here are two user group events that are happening soon and that I'm directly involved. July 8 th , Chicago ALT.NET 0-60 With Fluent NHibernate See the full description of the session over at the Chicago ALT.NET home page. We will have Hudson Akridge tell us all about Fluent NHibernate , a project...

This Wednesday, June 17 th , the Chicago .NET Users Group, CNUG , has invited me to bring my JavaScript presentation to their monthly meeting. Despite of what the event description might lead you to believe, the talk is hardcore JavaScript, not much specific to Ajax at all, although I believe the material...

As a brief inspection of your RSS reader will quickly tell you, it's Code Camp season. Not to be left out of this party, the developers in the Chicago and Milwaukee areas have a great option this year. The Chicago Code Camp , which happens on May 30th, is strategically located right between these...

We're happy to announce the first partial list of talks selected for the Chicago Code Camp . We hope there's a good mix of various different technologies and that it could spark even more interest in the event. There are still a good number of time slots undecided for this event. If you want...

Next Tuesday, March 24 th I'll give a JavaScript talk at the Rockford .NET user group. This talk will be basically the same one I gave for the LCNUG back in December. The few opportunities I had to give this talk were highly rewarding. It's priceless to see developers realizing how mistakenly...

Thanks to the brave souls that ignored the incredibly exaggerated Winter storm warnings and insane weather forecast for last night. These folks came to the LCNUG meeting and were home before the first snow flake hit the ground. Also, thanks LCNUG for inviting me to talk, I hope you enjoyed at least a...

Next week I'll be speaking at the Lake County .NET Users' Group , in Grayslake, IL. The topic will be something that is near and dear to me and which I have talked and written about quite a number of times. If you live in the North 'burbs, come and support our local group. You can register...